Subj : Daily APOD Report To : All From : Ben Ritchey Date : Tue Apr 09 2019 08:55:13 Astronomy Picture of the Day Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! [1] Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2019 April 9 [2] Moon Occults Saturn Image Credit & Copyright: Cory Schmitz [3] Explanation: Sometimes Saturn disappears. It doesn't really go away, though, it just disappears from view when our Moon moves in front [4] . Such a Saturnian eclipse was visible along a small swath of Earth [5] -- from Brazil [6] to Sri Lanka [7] -- near the end of last month. The featured color image [8] is a digital fusion of the clearest images [9] captured by successive videos of the event [10] taken in red, green, and blue, and taken separately for Saturn [11] and the comparative bright Moon [12] . The exposures were taken from South Africa [13] just before occultation -- and also just before sunrise. When Saturn re-appeared [14] on the other side of the Moon [15] almost two hours later, the Sun had risen [16] . This year, eclipses [17] of Saturn by the Moon [18] occur almost monthly [19] , but, unfortunately, are visible only to those with the right location and with clear and dark skies. Follow APOD on Instagram: English [20] or Persian [21] Tomorrow's picture: a very different occultation ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- < [22] | Archive [23] | Submissions [24] | Index [25] | Search [26] | Calendar [27] | RSS [28] | Education [29] | About APOD [30] | Discuss [31] | > [32] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff [33] (MTU [34] ) & Jerry Bonnell [35] (UMCP [36] ) NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply [37] . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices [38] A service of: ASD [39] at NASA [40] / GSFC [41] & Michigan Tech. U. [42] ---------- Site notes: [1] archivepix.html [2] image/1904/SaturnMoon_Schmitz_1445.jpg [3] https://twitter.com/theastroshake [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AtMXEviIa0 [5] http://www.lunar-occultations.com/iota/planets/saturn.jpg [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka [8] https://www.flickr.com/photos/schmitzcory/33629445928/in/dateposted-public/ [9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_imaging [10] https://www.universetoday.com/141898/ see-the-moon-photobomb-saturn-in-an-amazing-capture/ [11] https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/saturn/overview/ [12] ap151112.html [13] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa [14] ap010908.html [15] ap130716.html [16] https://i.imgur.com/HHqQrph.jpg [17] ap020222.html [18] https://moon.nasa.gov/ [19] http://www.lunar-occultations.com/iota/planets/saturn.jpg [20] https://www.instagram.com/astronomypicturesdaily/ [21] https://www.instagram.com/avastarapod/ [22] ap190408.html [23] archivepix.html [24] lib/apsubmit2015.html [25] lib/aptree.html [26] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search [27] calendar/allyears.html [28] /apod.rss [29] lib/edlinks.html [30] lib/about_apod.html [31] http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=190409 [32] ap190410.html [33] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html [34] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ [35] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html [36] http://www.astro.umd.edu/ [37] lib/about_apod.html#srapply [38] https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html [39] https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ [40] https://www.nasa.gov/ [41] https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ [42] http://www.mtu.edu/ --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 (Windows/32) * Origin: FIDONet - The Positronium Repository (1:393/68) .